Sad Story of The Rushes Inn. On my way from Kilkenny to Dublin the other day, I decided that as I was in no great rush, to eschew the M9 motorway and to take the ‘old road’, the N78. Taking these old roads can be an evocative experience. Old memories of the many times you…
John Coffey’s Story The bar business is in John Coffey’s blood. He comes from several generations of publicans. Originally from Newbridge in County Kildare, he grew up over his father’s pub on the main street in the town. He knows the trade inside and out, and is well respected and liked by his…
‘Use it or lose it!’ Those are the words of Dr Ignazio Cabras of the University of York’s management school, who along with a group of British researchers is currently half way through a year long study of the Irish Pub. They will be looking at the vital economic role public houses play in…
Got a good laugh from this billboard. Came across it recently in one of the most remote spots you can find in Ireland, Carnsore Point in County Wexford. Carnesore Point is the most south-eastern point on the island of Ireland, it is so far removed in fact from the east-coast urban areas, that the…
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